Is there a way to encourage a diverse group of people to buy smaller proportions of MSC? I saw Realsolid do a thing where he limited the amount of Feeshares that anyone could buy at one time. I think that is something maxmint could do to put the fire out a bit.
I think this kind of regulation to the open market would be no good. Moreover, I'm just escrowing trades and people sure would find ways to do this without me.
Another solution, instead of selling MSC it might be a good idea to start up an MSC faucet and give out small quantities like .1 or .2 or .5 MSC for free to people. This way the people who already purchased MSC wont suffer as much but MSC would also be distributed a bit more.
A faucet would be a great thing. I think the current price spike is mostly because more and more people are learning about Mastercoin and are afraid they could miss the boat. So it would be great if they could get their hands on a small amount of Mastercoins.
JR could set up a giveaway thread, similar to the Ripple giveaway thread. This would bring Mastecoins to the masses and would bring more attention to the project at the same time. I'd be willing to donate some of my Mastercoins to this.